Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the environmental impact of the mass stranding of razor clams along Teesside and North Yorkshire beaches in May and June 2022.

An investigation was carried out seeking causes of a mass mortality incident of crabs and lobsters off the north-east coast of England between October and December 2021. Local reports of smaller, recent incidents, including stranding of razor clams, are being jointly monitored by agencies at the coast and research is ongoing to understand the impacts on the stocks.